#*insert that dialogue between Dionysus and Apollo where Apollo says he might be have pretty hair but he also has arrows*
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my-name-is-apollo · 3 months ago
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"Also, some criticize 'pretty Apollo', the epithet given to Apollo, on the grounds that exoleti* were called pulchri by ancient writers: in Lucilius too in fact Apollo is unwilling to be called pretty (pulcher)."
– Servius' commentary on Aeneid 4. 3.119 (trans. J. L. Butrica)
*Exoleti - a class of male lovers/prostitutes in ancient Rome
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